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    But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws
    So much, as when we call our old debts in
    At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil,
    And find a deuced balance with the devil.

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Whom conscience, ne'er asleep,
Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep,
Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

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Oh! think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,
Oh! read more

Oh! think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods,
Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time,
Filled up with horror all, and big with death!

by Joseph Addison Found in: Conscience Quotes,
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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

by Samuel Butler Found in: Conscience Quotes,
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Why should not Conscience have vacation
As well as other Courts o' th' nation?
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Why should not Conscience have vacation
As well as other Courts o' th' nation?
Have equal power to adjourn,
Appoint appearance and return?

by Samuel Butler Found in: Conscience Quotes,
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

by George Santayana Found in: Conscience Quotes,
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to
prevent, it seldom has justice enough to read more

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength to
prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

by Oliver Goldsmith Found in: Conscience Quotes,
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O Conscience, into what abyss of fears
And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which
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O Conscience, into what abyss of fears
And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which
I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

by John Milton Found in: Conscience Quotes,
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The still small voice is wanted.

The still small voice is wanted.

by William Cowper Found in: Conscience Quotes,
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